Hamm The Pivot

Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55383-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, a global volunteer collaboration called Pivot Projects was formed to rethink how the world works. In The Pivot, the journalist Steve Hamm, who embedded in the group from the start, tells the remarkable story of a collaborative experiment seeking to make societies more sustainable and resilient.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamm, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Entscheidungsfindung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Betriebliches Energie- und Umweltmanagement
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Mission
Poem: An Imagined Letter from COVID-19 to Humans
2. The Core Team
Profile: Shulamit Morris-Evans, British Extinction Rebellion activist
3. The Scrum
Profile: Waël Alafandi, Syrian refugee studying in France
4. Struggles
Profile: Anh Nguyen, Vietnamese fish exporter studying in Sweden
5. Remapping the World
Profile: Tom Rossiter, American architect and photographer
6. The Theory of Everything
Profile: Anna Panagiotou, Greek archaeologist
7. Rethinking Resilience
Profile: Sharmin Sarah Mim, Bangladeshi teacher-trainer
8. Talking to Robots
Profile: Shay Hershkovitz, Israeli political scientist and start-up executive
9. Points of Light
Profile: Gamelilhe Sibanda, Zimbabwean technical adviser to the United Nations
10. Places
Profile: Paola Bay, Italian artist and designer
11. Bright Ideas
Profile: Ian Mabbett, Welsh university professor and inventor
12. Connecting
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Hamm is an author, journalist, and filmmaker. He has worked for a number of newspapers and magazines, including BusinessWeek and the San Jose Mercury News, and has made documentary films about immigration, policing, and opioids. He is coauthor of Smart Machines: IBM’s Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing (Columbia, 2013) and Rise of the Data Cloud (2020), among other books.